Layout container furniture system

Layout is a container furniture system for home and office, eccentric in form, practical and rational in use. The organic lines are the result of research into the expressive potential of extruded aluminium, a material that enables unconventional but linear forms, potentially of endless length, to be built. Equally important is the choice of textures: the surface is marked by slightly cuspidate vertical strips that generate chiaroscuro effects that vary according to the incidence of light. Michele De Lucchi explains “I had the softness of a curtain in mind, something light to be contrasted with the rigorous geometry of masonry walls. The strength of the project lies in its capacity to affect, to structure the space into which it is inserted. Layout is not a simple container, but a small architecture that generates a new spatiality”.
Structurally there is no difference between supporting frame and external surface. The two lateral uprights – on which the doors are hinged and the shelves supported – guarantee the stability of the system.
Layout has been designed in a number of versions: with back, corner and island. The latter version does not have a front; it is an all-round volume that can be positioned in the centre of the space and open comfortably on both sides. Once open, the doors remain in position, almost taking on the function of a screen.